Relinquish

“LET GO OF IT IF HOLDING ON MEANT LOSING YOURSELF AND QUESTIONING YOUR SELF WORTH” The book titled ‘’Relinquish~ The endings won’t end you!'' Is all about the theme of letting go! Let go of it- The past that still holds your fingertip, the trauma that doesn’t let you live, the relationship that has been nothing but toxic, the overthinking killing your positivity and all those fears that have crept in. Life isn’t all about roses but for once let go of all those thorns and let courage and optimistic energy flush in! The book will take you down to discovering your own self, knowing your self-worth and letting go of all that holds you back because NOT EVERYTHING YOU LOSE IS A LOSS! “A hundred shades of your life, You don’t want to get grey It’s not what you own Everything you have will once fade The one who cares Will definitely stay LET GO of what takes yourself away! The poetry, the stories, the tales and the quotes each with a new meaning to unfold! The thoughts and the passion of the Co-authors! The beautiful meaning that their write up teaches us and a thought to forever cherish! “LET GO OF THE ILLUSION THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY DIFFERENT “ I hope all those avid readers reading this anthology learn about the art of letting go, embrace their own self and always remember! Be enough for yourself first the rest of the world can wait! Learn to let go of all those things holding you back and spread your wings in the open sky to fly!

Contents include: I. What is authority? and Where do you get it? II. Patterns of Growth in Authority III. Practical Dilemmas in the Exercise of Authority IV. Authority in Different Voices V. The Paradoxical Authority of Laity and Clergy VI. Growing in Authority, Being the Church

“Impressively reported...[Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the case that adoption is no solution for Americans’ reduced access to abortion.” —San Francisco Chronicle A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem. With the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization revoking abortion protections, we are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution devoted to separating families and policing parenthood under the guise of feel-good family-building. Rooted in a long-term study, Relinquished features the in-depth testimonies of American mothers who placed their children for domestic adoption. The voices of these women are powerful and heartrending; they deserve to be heard.

Relinquished An Australian graduate, Michelle Apperton, disappears while working on a conservation assessment of two islands in New Zealand’s rugged Marlborough Sounds. Ben Arthur, a New Zealand university lecturer, has to defend his innocence of any crime and convince the police that tuatara smugglers abducted her. Michelle’s nightmare is just beginning. She finds out she will be a consolation prize for a visiting Singaporean collector of rare and endangered wildlife, and that she will be murdered by the smugglers once he leaves their Wairarapa farm. Frustrated in every desperate attempt to resist her captors, her only hope of survival lies with Keith Shandler, an ex-con, but his help has a price. Ben, quite prepared to risk his life for Michelle, follows a lead to her whereabouts, but by then she is on the run with Keith. Pursued, Keith makes a succession of fateful decisions that lead to he and Michelle becoming trapped on a Cook Strait ferry. One life will be forfeit, and the other will never be the same.

On Monday, October 28, 1974, author Jackee Ashwin was with heavy heart and belly, no money for a bus ride and a long walk across town with suitcase in hand. She was heading for her final checkup with the doctor, forty weeks pregnant, swollen ankles, swollen fingers, and a waddle of which any duck would be proud. It was the day her son came into the world, and it would prove to be one of the saddest of her life. From the 1950s through the 1970s, thousands of newborn children in Australia were taken from their mothers simply because the women werent married. The children were placed in other families, the women ridiculed and shamed. In Relinquished, Returned, Rejected, Ashwin tells her personal story of hiding the shame of her teenage pregnancy, the adoption, and the guilt that accompanied her throughout her life. Spanning forty yearsfrom the foothills of Ben Lomond in Tasmania, an island state of Australia, to Cairns, Far North Queenslandthis memoir shares Ashwins heartbreaking story of losing her son to adoption as part of the stolen white generation and the joys of holding him in her arms as a thirty-eight-year-old man. The years in between found her dealing with still birth, a marriage breakdown, and mental resilience.